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chilpatli.

Headword: 
chilpatli.
Principal English Translation: 

plant with toxic milky sap (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chīlpahtli
IPAspelling: 
tʃiːlpɑhtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

CHĪLPAH-TLI plant with toxic milky sap / cierta planta medicinal y lactifera, cuya leche es venenosa (R) [(1)Rp.74]. R fails to mark the vowel of the initial syllable long. See CHĪL-LI, PAH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 52.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora